How do I take pictures with ANAFI Ai?

To access the photo options of ANAFI Ai tap the “Mode” box in the bottom bar of the HUD.

 

Six photo modes are available on ANAFI Ai: Photo (single shot), Timelapse, GPS Lapse, Panorama (4 formats), Bracketing and Burst.

 

Thanks to its 48MP CMOS sensor, ANAFI Ai produces three main picture formats:

• rectilinear (up to 16MP) or wide (48MP or 12 MP) JPEG;
• wide 48MP or 12 MP JPEG and DNG (Digital NeGative: Adobe open standard RAW format);
• composite panoramas (JPEG), up to 32MP.

 

Note that the HDR option is only available for 12MP photos.

 

First, select a photo mode by tapping the “Mode” box of the HUD.

The options appear on your device. Tap a photo mode to select it.

 

When a photo mode is selected, the soft shutter button of the HUD appears as a full white circle.

 

Tap the photo settings box to call the photo settings boxes.

 

Tap the last box on the right of the screen to access the available photo formats.

 

There is no option for the “Photo” (single shot) and “Burst” modes.

 

Selecting the “Timelapse” mode opens seven options: 0.5 sec (12MP only), 1 sec, 2 secs, 4 secs, 10 secs, 30 secs and 60 secs.

 

Selecting the “GPS Lapse” opens six options: 5m, 10m, 20m, 50m, 100m, and 200m.

 

Selecting the “Panorama” mode opens four options: Vertical, Horizontal, 360 and Super Wide.

 

The Panorama mode is the only photography mode which requires the drone to be flying before you can activate the shutter. Refer to the next section, “Generating Panoramas”, for additional details about the “Panorama” mode.

 

Selecting the “Bracketing” mode opens three options: 3 photos (-1 EV, +0.0 EV, +1 EV), 5 photos (-2 EV to +2 EV) and 7 photos (-3 EV to +3 EV). When one of these options has been selected, the soft shutter button of the HUD displays the number of the corresponding option.

 

Second, select a photo format from the corresponding box of the HUD.

Tap the “Imaging box” to call the photo settings boxes.

 

Tap the “Resolution box” to select 48MP or 12MP.

 

Tap the last box on the right of the screen to access the photo formats.

 

Available photo formats for each photo mode are as follows:

 

Photo (Single)

JPEG RECT, JPEG WIDE, DNG+JPEG (RECT or WIDE)

 

Timelapse

JPEG RECT only

 

GPS Lapse

JPEG RECT only

 

Panorama

JPEG RECT only

 

Panorama

JPEG RECT only

 

Bracketing

JPEG RECT, JPEG WIDE, DNG+JPEG (RECT or WIDE)

 

Burst

JPEG RECT, JPEG WIDE

 

Tap a format (JPEG RECT, or JPEG WIDE if available, or any DNG+JPEG format if available) to select it.

 

Tap the “Imaging” box again to close the sub-boxes and confirm your choice.

When you are happy with your settings and your framing, press the hard shutter button on the right of the Parrot Skycontroller 4 (or tap the soft shutter button of the HUD) to take a photo.

 

In “Photo” mode, the screen flashes in black and white to confirm a picture has been taken.

 

In “Timelapse” mode, the screen flashes in black and white to confirm a picture has been taken. 0.5 to 60 seconds later, depending on your option choice, the drone takes another photo, and so on until you press the shutter button again to stop the Timelapse.

 

In “GPS Lapse” mode, the screen flashes in black and white to confirm a picture has been taken. Control and move ANAFI Ai: when the drone reaches any point on a 5 to 200-meter bubble around the initial photo, depending on your option choice, the drone takes another photo, and so on until you press the shutter button again to stop the GPS Lapse. Between each shutter action, a green progress bar, at the bottom of the HUD, lets you estimate the distance the drone must cover before the next shot.

 

For additional details on the “Panorama” mode, refer to the next section, “Generating Panoramas”.

 

In “Bracketing” mode, the screen flashes in black and white to confirm 3, 5 or 7 pictures have been taken.

 

In “Burst” mode, the screen flashes in black and white to confirm 10 pictures have been taken in the span of 1 second.

 

About ANAFI Ai photo formats:

JPEG RECT:    4:3 aspect ratio, up to 16MP and 75.5° horizontal field of view (HFOV) 

JPEG WIDE:    4:3 aspect ratio,48MP, 84° HFOV – zoom is disabled for this format 

DNG+JPEG:    4:3 aspect ratio, 48MP, 84° HFOV – zoom is disabled for WIDE option 

 

The DNG+JPEG option produces at least 2 files (1 DNG, 1 JPEG) for each shutter action. As other RAW picture formats, DNG is a very useful format for professional photography processing and workflow. Indeed, RAW formats retain all the information gathered by photography sensors, contrary to JPEG formats – which are compressed and processed renderings of this comprehensive information. In consequence, RAW pictures such as ANAFI Ai’s DNG are heavy files, but they offer the very best post-processing and retouching possibilities.